To Tossa de Mar's history and art is joined the traditional flavour of a seaside place. This can be seen in the Vila Nova, beside the beach, where there are many hotels and apartments. A great deal of the leisure offer, both by day and at night, is concentrated on this promenade. The gentle temperatures of the Costa Brava and its rich landscape provide many open-air activities in contact with nature. The transparency of the water and the rich life on the seabed make possible more than one kind of diving and any water sport. At night, restaurants and terraces take charge of making a traveller's stay an unforgettable experience. It is a lively atmosphere continuing in any of the coastal towns, which bring together an unbeatable range of hotels and leisure activities. The coves and beaches of Salions, Giverola, Pola, Llevador, Llorel and Morisca are some of these tourist centres.
And the area's cuisine adds products from the Mediterranean Sea to those from inland, elaborating traditional and innovative recipes. Broad beans and peas from the fields appear together with "esqueixadas" (cod salad) "escalivadas" (cold roast aubergine, onion and peppers) and chicken or rabbit stews with seafood. For their part, prawns, sea bass and gilt-head bream are prepared in numerous ways. Among the desserts, fruit is very important (strawberries, peaches, melons, water melons, oranges...), and in summer these are turned into ice-creams and sorbets.
Your tour of Tossa could continue in the Municipal Museum, which lies within the walled enclosure of the Vila Vella. Outstanding among its collections of archaeology, Catalan and foreign painting, sculpture and glass, are Roman mosaics and canvases by Benet, Sunyer and Marc Chagall. The Roman pieces largely come from the Roman villa at Els Ametllers.